Today I came across one of Bigfoot Entertainment’s lawyer’s profiles on LinkedIn. I’m a bit dumbfounded.

This is what Marco Notarnicola claims one of his responsibilities is at Bigfoot:

co-existence, consent agreements, etc. to ensure creative resolution of IP disputes, including manipulation of TMs and common law marks to achieve UDRP “reverse domain name hijacking”.

Wait–what? Is this guy bragging about manipulating trademarks to reverse hijack domain names through UDRP?

If so, it seems pretty dumb to put that on your LinkedIn profile. Anyone who gets hit with a UDRP from Bigfoot or a related company can put this in their UDRP response.

I reached out to Notarnicola about this and will update the story if I hear back.

Update 8/23/16: Notarnicolo has updated the sentence to read: “co-existence, consent agreements, etc. to ensure creative resolution of IP disputes, including manipulation of TMs and common law marks to recognize cases of UDRP “reverse domain name hijacking”.”

So instead of “achieve”, it says “recognize cases of”.

It doesn’t make much sense to me. How would you manipulate TMs to “recognize” cases of RDNH? Furthermore, why didn’t his peer Romon Popov, who filed the UDRP for Slized.com, “recognize” that he had filed a RDNH case?

Notarnicolo has updated the sentence to read: “co-existence, consent agreements, etc. to ensure creative resolution of IP disputes, including manipulation of TMs and common law marks to recognize cases of UDRP “reverse domain name hijacking”.

Well I think it is safe to assume that Anonymous is old old mate Marco Notarnicola. I have just been in correspondence with him on Linkedin. A very angry young man, no wonder he comments on headaches all the time. Same old bumph about getting legal advice.

With regard to his infamous quote on linked in he said

” Also, how would a random quote on the Internet (that is by the way completely misinterpreted by you guys and that I had to modify lest to be further misunderstood by ignorant gossipers such as your favorite “bloggers”) help your case? I do not think that will demonstrate to the Office that you have been using the Oxygen trademark”

Only an Italian Solicitor (sorry paralegal) could come up with that.

He even went so far as to claim I was blackmailing him, but then suggested I should contact his office to reach a settlement ( I think that meant me pay them).

In your dreams sr. paralegal Marco. My defence is rock solid and your little quote is just the cream on the cake. Lets hope that Michael Gleissner knows about Marco’s little faux par as otherwise sr paralegal will be subsequently replaced parpalegal. Anyone with contact details for Michael, feel free to gie him a heads up on this.